Fix user-facing typos (mainly in descriptions)

13 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/common.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/common.nix
index fdb1195bb82..915b5466634 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/rustc/common.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     then "macos-i386"
     else if stdenv.system == "x86_64-darwin"
     then "macos-x86_64"
-    else abort "no snapshot to boostrap for this platform (missing platform url suffix)";
+    else abort "no snapshot to bootstrap for this platform (missing platform url suffix)";
 
   target = if stdenv.system == "i686-linux"
     then "i686-unknown-linux-gnu"
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     then "i686-apple-darwin"
     else if stdenv.system == "x86_64-darwin"
     then "x86_64-apple-darwin"
-    else abort "no snapshot to boostrap for this platform (missing target triple";
+    else abort "no snapshot to bootstrap for this platform (missing target triple";
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://www.rust-lang.org/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix
index f16a39e6ab0..bf9b645c8f5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdome2/default.nix
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   meta = {
     homepage = http://gdome2.cs.unibo.it/;
-    description = "DOM C library developped for the Gnome project";
+    description = "DOM C library developed for the Gnome project";
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl21Plus;
     maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.roconnor ];
     broken = true;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix
index 9ae1a5cf88a..98f6511f391 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/default.nix
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       Main features:
 
       * Extended support for language peculiarities; Unicode character encoding, compounding and complex morphology.
-      * Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronounciation data.
+      * Improved suggestion using n-gram similarity, rule and dictionary based pronunciation data.
       * Morphological analysis, stemming and generation.
       * Hunspell is based on MySpell and works also with MySpell dictionaries.
       * C++ library under GPL/LGPL/MPL tri-license.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/0.82.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/0.82.nix
index db4af40afbd..2b4be7ae230 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/0.82.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/0.82.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   meta = {
     description = "A library for OS-independent CD-ROM and CD image access";
     longDescription = ''
-      GNU libcdio is a library for OS-idependent CD-ROM and
+      GNU libcdio is a library for OS-independent CD-ROM and
       CD image access.  It includes a library for working with
       ISO-9660 filesystems (libiso9660), as well as utility
       programs such as an audio CD player and an extractor.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/default.nix
index 02dd10841c1..4188306128e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcdio/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   meta = {
     description = "A library for OS-independent CD-ROM and CD image access";
     longDescription = ''
-      GNU libcdio is a library for OS-idependent CD-ROM and
+      GNU libcdio is a library for OS-independent CD-ROM and
       CD image access.  It includes a library for working with
       ISO-9660 filesystems (libiso9660), as well as utility
       programs such as an audio CD player and an extractor.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.2.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.2.nix
index f50331ba684..dfdb86901c2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.2.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.2.nix
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
       reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on
       previous commands.
 
-      The history facilites are also placed into a separate library,
+      The history facilities are also placed into a separate library,
       the History library, as part of the build process.  The History
       library may be used without Readline in applications which
       desire its capabilities.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.3.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.3.nix
index ea459f291b3..98ebcdabebe 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.3.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/readline/6.3.nix
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on
       previous commands.
 
-      The history facilites are also placed into a separate library,
+      The history facilities are also placed into a separate library,
       the History library, as part of the build process.  The History
       library may be used without Readline in applications which
       desire its capabilities.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/slib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/slib/default.nix
index 02e7dc24159..daf716296a1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/slib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/slib/default.nix
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       provides a platform independent framework for using packages of Scheme
       procedures and syntax.  As distributed, SLIB contains useful packages
       for all Scheme implementations.  Its catalog can be transparently
-      extended to accomodate packages specific to a site, implementation,
+      extended to accommodate packages specific to a site, implementation,
       user, or directory.
 
       SLIB supports Bigloo, Chez, ELK 3.0, Gambit 4.0, Guile, JScheme, Kawa,
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/ti-rpc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/ti-rpc/default.nix
index 9b08b8d5d90..a85f8a6b11c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/ti-rpc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/ti-rpc/default.nix
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
        migrated their SunRPC library to a TI-RPC (Transport Independent
        RPC) implementation.  This implementation allows the support of
        other transports than UDP and TCP over IPv4.  FreeBSD provides a
-       TI-RPC library ported from NetBSD with improvments.  This library
+       TI-RPC library ported from NetBSD with improvements.  This library
        already supports IPv6.  So, the FreeBSD release 5.2.1 TI-RPC has
        been ported to replace the SunRPC of the glibc.
     '';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix
index 1f54d132dcc..8c0854ef3de 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/misc/avr-gcc-with-avr-libc/default.nix
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   };
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
-      description = "AVR developement environment including binutils, avr-gcc and avr-libc";
+      description = "AVR development environment including binutils, avr-gcc and avr-libc";
       # I've tried compiling the packages separately.. too much hassle. This just works. Fine.
       license =  ["GPL" "LGPL"]; # see single packages ..
       homepage = []; # dito
diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/tyxml/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/tyxml/default.nix
index 77cf0638255..265b94392b4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/tyxml/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/tyxml/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://ocsigen.org/tyxml/;
-    description = "A library that makes it almost impossible for your OCaml programs to generate wrong XML ouput, using static typing";
+    description = "A library that makes it almost impossible for your OCaml programs to generate wrong XML output, using static typing";
     license = licenses.lgpl21;
     platforms = ocaml.meta.platforms;
     maintainers = with maintainers; [
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/cargo/common.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/cargo/common.nix
index 04eaec9daef..00bf4aa746a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/cargo/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/cargo/common.nix
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ rec {
     then "i686-apple-darwin"
     else if stdenv.system == "x86_64-darwin"
     then "x86_64-apple-darwin"
-    else throw "no snapshot to boostrap for this platform (missing platform url suffix)";
+    else throw "no snapshot to bootstrap for this platform (missing platform url suffix)";
 
   snapshotHash = if stdenv.system == "i686-linux"
     then "4dea04e278192c5409f43794a98f20a8f59df2d9"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/ocp-build/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/ocp-build/default.nix
index 4970d641643..dc846acb500 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/ocp-build/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/ocaml/ocp-build/default.nix
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
       ocp-build is a build system for OCaml application, based on simple
       descriptions of packages. ocp-build combines the descriptions of
       packages, and optimize the parallel compilation of files depending on
-      the number of cores and the automatically-infered dependencies
+      the number of cores and the automatically-inferred dependencies
       between source files.
     '';
     license = licenses.gpl3;